Rep. Allen West has gotten his wish: the canvassing board in St. Lucie County has ordered a retabulation for all eight days of early voting.

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West appeared to have lost his election to newcomer Patrick Murphy. Murphy leads the race by a few thousand votes.

West's campaign has been battling since the election for a retabulation, citing discrepancies in the way the ballots were counted.

Friday afternoon, a judge in St. Lucie County denied West's bid to stop the certification of his loss and recount the ballots. But Friday night, the canvassing board voted 2-1 to order the retabulation, saying there was enough concern and enough questions to warrant the retabulation.

"We're obviously pleased with the canvassing board's decision tonight," said Tim Edson, West's campaign manager. "We've maintained from the beginning that there's some serious discrepancies in the returns we've seen so far."

The Murphy campaign disagreed.

"There really wasn't any basis in the law for the decision that they made," said Sean Domnick, an attorney for the campaign. "It was made for other reasons. If they followed then we wouldn't be dealing with this."